Sydney Leathers was just a small town Indiana girl with a passion for politics, but all of that changed when her sexting relationship with shamed, married-with-infant New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner came to light.

Pfc. Bradley Manning took the stand Wednesday at his sentencing hearing in the WikiLeaks case and apologized for hurting his country, pleading with a military judge for a chance to go to college and become a productive citizen.

A defiant Muslim Brotherhood declared it was not backing down Thursday against a crackdown by Egypt's interim government, vowing to "bring down this military coup" as hundreds of protesters stormed a government building in Cairo and set a fire at its entrance, state television and witnesses say.